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Apple praised in China for environmental policies

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 8th, 2013)

Chinese environmental activist Ma Jun recently said that Apple has made major strides towards becoming more environmentally friendly and transparent with respect to the company's operations in China. While speaking at the Fortune Global Forum in Chengdu, China, Ma explained that Apple has ...

Apple soars into Fortune 500's top 10

by Steven Sande (May 6th, 2013)

Despite the media's best attempts to make it appear that Apple is in dire financial straits, Fortune today reported that the company has made it into the top 10 of the Fortune 500 list. Apple arrives in the top 10 in the number six spot, replacing HP (now No. 15) as the leading tech company. ...

Fortune: Apple may see first quarter of negative income growth since 2003

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 26th, 2013)

Apple investors may want to brace themselves for an onslaught of negative headlines when Apple reports its Q2 2013 earnings in the coming month. According to Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog, Apple is expected to report its first year-over-year decline in income in 10 years. Much ...

Daily Update for February 28, 2013

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple is Fortune 'World's Most Admired Company' for 2013

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2013)

For the past 30 years, Fortune has compiled a list of the World's Most Admired Companies. This year, as with the previous five years, Apple took the top spot in the ranking. The ranking is compiled from results of an annual poll of business executives asking them to identify the companies ...

Fortune ranks the Apple analysts

by Mike Wehner (Jan 24th, 2013)

After Apple's earnings call yesterday the company's stock took a sizable hit. This, of course, was due in large part to the company underperforming analysts' revenue expectations. But rather than rail on Apple, Fortune argues that Wall Street's Apple analysts performed worse than the company ...

Fortune: Apple's American-made computer will be 2013 Mac Pro

by Randy Nelson (Dec 10th, 2012)

Do you have money riding on a bet that the line of computers Apple's planning to manufacture in the US next year is the Mac Pro? Well, Fortune believes there's a good chance you're right. According to an article by the business publication, there are a few factors that add up to suggest the new ...

Daily Update for December 4, 2012

by Steven Sande (Dec 4th, 2012)

Fortune calls new iMac 'best ever'

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 4th, 2012)

Fortune has officially said what many of us who have already gotten our hands on Apple's newest computer are thinking: the latest iMac is the "best ever." If you haven't played around with one yet, get down to an Apple store and see one for yourself. The images you've seen dancing around the ...

Study: 38% of iPhone customers come from RIM, Android

by Steven Sande (Jun 7th, 2012)

With sales of iPhones still booming, you might be wondering where all of those customers are coming from. Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Fortune is citing an April survey by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) that shows that more iPhones were sold to consumers leaving Apple's ...

Considering how Tim Cook is changing Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 24th, 2012)

Adam Lashinsky, Sr. of Fortune takes an interesting look at Tim Cook and how the new CEO is changing Apple. He spends a great deal of time writing about Cook's business practices and the philosophy that'll shape the Apple of the future. Lashinsky writes, In general, Apple has become ...

Apple climbs to 17 on Fortune 500 list

by Steven Sande (May 8th, 2012)

Fortune released the Fortune 500 list for 2012, and Apple is now in the top 20 of the list of the largest U.S. corporations in the #17 spot. That's a vast improvement from last year's ranking at 35. Apple has a way to go to get into the top five, which is populated by such famous names as ...

Survey: 24% of Americans plan to buy the new iPad in the next three months

by Steven Sande (Mar 26th, 2012)

While all surveys should be viewed with a skeptical eye, a recent study from Baird Equity Research should make Apple watchers happy. As reported by Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the survey of 488 "younger, tech-savvier" online respondents by Baird showed some surprising results. The first ...

Apple Stores and Microsoft Stores by the numbers

by Steven Sande (Mar 2nd, 2012)

TUAW readers know from a series of posts we've run over the years that Microsoft has been opening self-branded stores throughout the U.S., usually just a stone's throw away from well-trafficked Apple Stores. Fortune's JP Mangalindan took a metaphorical bullet for the sake of a story and visited ...

Apple is Fortune's Most Admired Company for fifth year in a row

by Steven Sande (Mar 1st, 2012)

For the fifth year in a row, Apple has taken the honors as Fortune's Most Admired Company. Apple aced out Google, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, and IBM. Those companies that took second through fifth places respectively. Fortune cited Apple's stellar financial performance during the last year as the main ...